KALIBAPI

The Association for Service to the New Philippines (KALIBAPI) was a Filipino political party that served as the only party in the Japanese-occupied Philippines from 8 December 1942 to 1945. Benigno Aquino Sr. was the party's leader during its brief existence, and the party was both a Filipino nationalist and pro-Japanese party. It promoted the Tagalog language as the national language of the Philippines, and it achieved the cause of Filipino independence when Japan created the Second Philippine Republic puppet state on 14 October 1943. After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in August 1945, the KALIBAPI's leadership was either arrested, went into hiding, went into exile in Japan, or was executed by vengeful Hukbalahap communist rebels.